Grand Island Daily Independent
Monday, January 3, 1910

UNDER COURT HOUSE DOME
Married Less Than Two Months and Complaint Filed.

A new record was made for short-term marriages when Mrs. Maggie E. Henry filed a complaint against her husband Oscar Henry for wife desertion after having been married less than two months ago. It was Nov. 15 that the nuptial knot was tied. From what can be learned the two have seen each other within the last week but of late the groom has made his home with his parents and the bride with hers.

The warrant was presented in the defendant at Doniphan this morning and he was brought to this city to await the preliminary hearing before Judge Mullin in county court. Mr. Henry, father of the defendant, came up this afternoon and will prepare to defend his son. He alleges that his son was ordered to leave the home of Mr. Henry's folks a short time ago. Of late they had trouble over the ownership of a buggy and it is alleged that the plaintiff attacked her husband as well as his father.

Grand Island Daily Independent
Monday, January 3, 1910

MARRIED

Mr. Henry Roy Burns of this city and Miss Lottie Cook of St. Paul were the first ones to be married in Hall county in 1910. They were united in the bonds of wedlock by Judge Mullin this morning. The year 1909 broke the record for marriages in Hall county. There were 315 of them.

Grand Island Daily Independent
Monday, January 3, 1910

VETERAN SOLDIER PRESENTS RATHER A PUZZLING CASE

Marshall York, an old soldier, who came from Fullerton, called at the police station yesterday with his hands severely blistered, as if they had been burned. He claimed that they were frozen however, and was suffering greatly. Mr. York came to this city to reside at the Soldiers' Home but his papers had not been received on his arrival here and he remained at the Altoona rooming house for about a week.

On walking in at the police station the officers were surprised to see the condition of the man. All the fingers were swollen and covered with blisters and the finger nails had turned black. The old man claimed that he had been drinking Saturday night and about 9:30 he fell into a sand hole. He was found by someone and taken to his room and in the morning he went to the station for help.

He was taken out to the Soldiers Home at once and Dr. Piatt (?) dressed the injuries. It is learned this morning that York still claims that his hands were frozen but the doctor reports that the hands were burned. It is believed that there is still something back of the case. What reason the old man could have for saying that his hands were frozen, when they were burned, no one knows. He is reported better this morning and unless blood poisoning sets in no serious results are feared.

Grand Island Daily Independent
Monday, January 3, 1910

POOL ROOMS PLAY HAVOC
And School Board Wants Stricter Regulations
BOY STUDENTS VISIT THEM
Can Usually Be Found There When Not in School

At the regular meeting of the school board last night special attention was called by Superintendent Barr to minors, including quite a number of the students of the High school, who spend their time in the pool halls when they should be in school. When some of the students are out of school they are invariably found in the pool halls and this fact started a determined effort on the part of the board to urge that the law with respect to minors playing in pool halls be rightly enforced. All members were in attendance except Geddes and Baumann. At the request of the superindendent, Attorney Harrison presented a statement in regard to the laws and regulations governing the visiting of pool and billiard halls by minors and stated that under the state law a minor under the age of 18 years may not be permitted to play the game of billiards, or remain or be in or upon the premises occupied by a billiard hall, saloon or where a billiard table is kept; this does not cover the game of pool unless played on a billiard table but if a game of pool or pool table is in a room where there are also billiard tables then the minor may not remain or be in the place, and if allowed to stay there, the owner or keeper is subject to a fine of $20 for the first offense and $50 for each and every succeeding offense.

Attention was also called to an ordinance passed by the city council last February, by which ever person running a pool or billiard halls mist have a license and by a section of this ordinance it provides that no owner of a pool or billiard hall shall allow any minor under the age of 18 to be in or play in such a place and a violation of this section will be deemed a Misdemeanor and upon conviction the offender shall be fined not more that $25 and costs and $50 and costs for every subsequent offense. A violation of this ordinance further provides for a revocation by the city council of the offenders license and that no license can be issued to him again for a years.

Member Norris stated that he knew of the evil caused by the pool rooms and suggested that the truant officer be given a list of minors and have him notify the owners of pool halls. Edwards believed it was the duty of the city officials to prosecute such cases and that the board should not take the initiative in criminal actions but that the board should ask for a rigid prosecution of all offenders. On motion the matter was referred to the mayor and chief of police and it was decided that the truant officer be furnished with a list of names of students under age, who frequent these places, and that he should work in harmony with the city officials. It was brought out from a statement made by a parent that one boy under age had spent as much as $20 in playing.